Who else was upset about the ministry takeover in DH and how it screwed with the status quo set up at the end of POA?

was completely expecting HBP to be a different book. While Harry made it obvious he wouldn't be returning to school, it seemed pretty set in stone what the new offscreen school year would look like: McGonagall being headmistress, a new DADA teacher we'd hopefully at least get to know about. And another student besides the trio not returning: Draco Malfoy.

Jo set up Draco's future as looking extremely bleak at the end of HBP. He had failed in his missing to kill Dumbledore and was now likely on the run. Would he be hunted down and killed? Would the trio cross paths with him? It was a very interesting setup for Draco in the last book.

But nope, Voldemort had to blow up the entire ministry and hit the reset button! Draco goes back to school as if nothing happened, Snape is "confirmed" as headmaster as if there was any debate at the end of HBP...Not only did it undo everything that had been set up as the new norm at the end of HBP, but now Harry was a wanted criminal! After spending almost all of OOTP being hated by the world, it was at least nice that the hate had disappeared by HBP. But no, on top of being away from school, Harry is no longer viewed as the chosen one he is.

I don't know, maybe some readers were expecting this. But I sure didn't and it was onen of the many things that made DH the worst book for me.